Prof. Chris Armstrong came to Bethel from the managing editor’s chair at Christian History & Biography magazine, a publication of Christianity Today International. He continues to write for Christian History & Biography, Christianity Today, Leadership Journal, and www.christianhistory.net. Armstrong’s research foci include religion and emotion, Christianity and literature, and the Christ-and-culture conversation. His doctoral work focused on the...

Dr. David Baker is Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio, having studied at Temple University, University of Tel Aviv, Dropsie College, Regent College, Cambridge University, and the University of London. He has lectured in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and South Africa. David has authored/edited over 40 books, including Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch. David and his wife also own two small businesses.

Dr. Peter Boettke received his PhD in economics from George Mason University in 1989 and is currently a university professor of economics there. His fields are Austrian economics and Comparative Political Economy. Prior to his return in 1998, Dr. Boettke taught at New York University. He was also a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has edited or co-edited several volumes on Austrian Economics including: The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics and The Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics and Market...

The Very Reverend Michael Butler is an Archpriest of the Orthodox Church in America. He has a BA in psychology from the University of Dallas, an MA in theology from the University of Dallas, and a PhD in church history and patristics from Fordham University, where he wrote his dissertation on St Maximus the Confessor. He is an adjunct professor in the religion department of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH, organized the Late Vocations Program for his Diocese and trains men for diaconal ministry. He has been a parish priest for 16 years.

Dr. Alejandro Chafuen, a native of Argentina, is president of Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Dr. Chafuen is a graduate of International College, where he received a Ph. D. in economics. He is also a trustee of the Acton Institute and author of Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics.

Rev. Raymond de Souza is the Chaplain of the Newman House at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where he is also an adjunct professor in the economics department. Prior to attending seminary at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, he studied economics at Queen’s, in Manila, Philippines, and at the University of Cambridge. He serves as editor of Acton’s Religion and Liberty and is a regular columnist for Canada’s National Post.

Dr. Edward Ericson is a former professor of English at Calvin College, where he taught for twenty-six years. Prior to Calvin he taught at Hope College and at Westmont College.  Dr. Ericson is a former national fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Dr. Greg Forster is a program director at the Kern Family Foundation, where he directs the Oikonomia Network, a national learning community of evangelical seminaries that equips pastors with a theological understanding of faith, work, and economics. He is also the editor of Hang Together, a group blog on religion, politics and national identity; a senior fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice; the author of five books and numerous articles in both academic and popular publications; and a regular contributor to online sources including The Gospel...

Dr. Kenneth L. Grasso is professor of political science at Texas State University.  He has written extensively on Catholic social thought, the liberal tradition, and democratic theory.   He has edited several books including Catholicism, Liberalism and Communitarianism (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), Catholicism and Religious Freedom:  Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty (Sheed & Ward, 2006), and Rethinking Rights:  Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives...

Dr. Samuel Gregg is Research Director at Acton Institute. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, ethics in finance, and natural law theory. He has an MA in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy from the University of Oxford, which he attended as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is the author of several books, including On Ordered Liberty, The Commercial Society, The Modern Papacy, Wilhelm Röpke...

Mr. Ismael Hernandez is the founder of the Freedom & Virtue Institute. He grew up in Puerto Rico as the son of a committed Marxist and a founding member of the Socialist Party. Ismael was a communist while studying at the University of Puerto Rico and active in the Socialist Party. When he came to America to attend graduate school, his experiences began to slowly shatter his preconceived notions about this country. He was embraced by Americans and given opportunities he could never have imagined. He began to read writings of and about America’s Founding Fathers...

Mr. Kishore Jayabalan is director of Istituto Acton in Rome. He organizes the institute’s educational and outreach efforts in Europe. He has worked as an international economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was appointed to the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, and worked for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Dr. John Lunn is the Robert W. Haack Professor of Economics at Hope College. He earned his doctorate at the University of California at Los Angeles, specializing in industrial organization and international trade. Dr. Lunn has been published in a number of economics journals, including European Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, and The Journal of Legal Studies, as well as scholarly journals that focus on faith and economics, including Christian Scholars’ Review, Faith & Economics, and Markets and Morality...

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse is the founder and President of the Ruth Institute. Dr. Morse brings a unique voice to discussions of love, marriage, sexuality and the family. A committed career woman before having children, she earned a doctorate in economics, and spent fifteen years teaching at Yale University and George Mason University. In 1991, she and her husband adopted a two year old Romanian boy, and gave birth to a baby girl. She left her full-time university teaching post in 1996 to move with her family to California. She was a Research Fellow at Stanford University...

Dr. John Pinheiro is associate professor of history and director of Catholic Studies at Aquinas College in Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Pinheiro co-edited volume 12 of the Presidential Series of the Papers of George Washington and is the author of Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and Civil-Military Relations during the Mexican War.  Consulting Editor for the Polk presidency at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, his publications also include articles on the early American...

Dr. Jay W. Richards, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Discovery Institute and a Contributing Editor of The American at the American Enterprise Institute. (www.american.com). He is the author of several books including Money, Greed, and God, and co-author of The Privileged Planet with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez. In recent years he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute...

Prof. Carroll Ríos de Rodríguez teaches Public Choice theory and development economics and serves as president of the Board of Trustees at Francisco Marroquín University. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Economics and Social Research Center (CEES), the Family, Development and Population Association (FADEP), and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. Rodríguez writes a weekly column for Siglo Veintiuno, and her articles appear in Perfiles Liberales, Regulation Magazine and The Wall Street...

Rev. Dan Scott, born in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia, has experienced divergent spiritual influences in his life. In the spiritual life of his childhood, he experienced the strengths of African-American and Appalachian White Pentecostal worship. In early adulthood, his beliefs were further enriched through his missionary work in Latin America, and among French-Canadian and Haitian people in Quebec.

Raised as a Pentecostal, Pastor Scott found his spiritual life expanded through his studies and his growing ties to Christians of all denominations. The...

Dr. Charles Self is an Associate Professor of Church History at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. Prior to his joining the faculty at AGTS, he served for 30 years in various pastoral roles—including senior pastor—and concurrently taught for 28 years at the following schools: Bethany University, AGTS (adjunct), Western Seminary (adjunct), George Fox University and Continental Theological Seminary in Brussels, Belgium. Besides church history courses, he has taught theology, philosophy, ethics, apologetics, leadership and ministry. Dr. Self has also...

John Stonestreet is a Speaker and Fellow of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. He is a gifted communicator on areas of faith and culture, theology, worldview, education, and apologetics, and is a sought-after speaker at conferences, colleges, churches, schools, and other various gatherings each year.

John is the co-host with Eric Metaxas of Breakpoint, the Christian worldview radio program founded by the late Chuck Colson, and the voice of the Point, a daily national radio feature on worldview, apologetics and cultural issues.  He also serves...

Andreas Widmer is Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at The Catholic University of America and President of The Carpenter’s Fund. He was previously the co-founder of SEVEN Fund, a philanthropic organization run by entrepreneurs who invested in original research, books, and films to further enterprise solutions to poverty.

He is the author of The Pope & The CEO: Pope John Paul II’s Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard, a book exploring leadership lessons that Widmer learned serving as a Swiss Guard protecting Pope John Paul II and refined during his...

Dr. Kent Wilson is a business practitioner and leadership specialist. After running for-profit and nonprofit companies for 30 years, he now mentors and coaches CEOs as an executive coach with Vistage International and the Nonprofit Leadership Exchange in Colorado Springs. He received his doctorate from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) in Steward Leadership, and teaches entrepreneurial business skills internationally as a volunteer trainer for three international business-as-mission organizations.